The Open Bible (1975) featured introductions, “Christian Life Study Outlines,” a harmony of the Gospels, articles, a one-year reading plan, a “guide for Christian workers,” cross-references, a topical index, and maps. Ryrie, who was probably the leading dispensationalist biblical scholar of the second half of the twentieth century. The Ryrie Study Bible (1978) contained similar features produced by Charles C. The Harper Study Bible (1971) was a special edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) with introductions, notes, and marginal references by Harold Lindsell, a respected fundamentalist Christian scholar. Study Bibles with a wider range of features began appearing in the 1970s. The Scofield Reference Bible did more than any other publication to popularize dispensational theology and is easily one of the most influential Christian publications of the twentieth century.
Three major subsequent editions were produced and at least ten million copies have been sold. Scofield published the Scofield Reference Bible, which included detailed notes explaining the entire Bible according to a system of theology called dispensationalism that had originated in the nineteenth century. Reliable sales figures seem to be difficult to find, but Thompson’s work has sold over four million and probably over ten million copies. This work featured a complex system of cross-references linked in “chains” dealing with numerous topics. In 1908, a Methodist pastor in New York named Frank Charles Thompson published the first edition of the Marginal Chain-Reference Bible, later known as the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible. The history of the modern study Bible began in the United States in the early twentieth century. Reading plans (suggested structured plans for reading through part or all of the Bible).Photographs (of specific locations, archaeological artifacts, and so forth) and other types of illustrations (drawings, diagrams).Maps (including specialized maps pertaining to specific parts of the Bible).Introductions (overviews of each book of the Bible, perhaps including an outline).Harmonies or parallel tables (e.g., a table showing how the contents of the four Gospels compare with each other).Dictionary or glossary (list of terms and brief definitions).
Cross-references (marginal notes directing the reader to other verses of some relevance).Concordance (an alphabetic list of important words and some or all of the verses where those words occur in the Bible).
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